Design and Implementation of a Headend Cable Modem and a User Terminal supporting Multiple Downstream Channel Bonding

Author

You, Woongshik ; Choi, Dong-Joon ; Kwon, O-Hyung ; Lee, Soo In

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon

fYear

2007

fDate

20-23 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we present efficient designs and implementations of a headend cable modem and a user terminal supporting downstream channel bonding for the HFC plant. The developed systems can enable various communication- broadcasting converged services over HFC network, such as HD IP-TV. The downstream channel bonding combines multiple downstream channels to provide greater aggregate bandwidth up to 400 Mbps for a user. We also present the test and demonstration results showing the advantages of the developed systems supporting the downstream channel bonding scheme. The proposed designs and implementations in this paper can be used to develop advanced headend cable modem and user terminal which provide hundreds Mbps transmission speed through downstream channel bonding, and enable new converged services over HFC network.

Keywords

hybrid fibre coax networks; modems; HFC network; HFC plant; headend cable modem; multiple downstream channel bonding; user terminal; Bandwidth; Bonding; Communication cables; Communication system control; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Modems; Network interfaces; Radio frequency; Scheduling; Spine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2007. ISCE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Irving, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1109-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1110-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2007.4382162

Filename

4382162